Performance Measurement and Evaluation

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Performance Measurement and Evaluation
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Comparing and contrasting two different articles:..........................................................................2
Recommendation on improving the performance level of an organization:...................................4
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2PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION
Comparing and contrasting two different articles:
Measuring performance of the employees is one of the major ways of improving
performance level of the staffs and thereby accelerate organizational productivity. With the
assistance of performance measurement mechanism, the activity of the staffs can be measured
and thus take action accordingly to mitigate the gap among the below working employees.
However, implementation of performance measurement mechanism can affect the organization.
Accordingly to the article namely, “The use of performance measurement systems in the public
sector: effects on performance”, it has been perceived that this can hamper productivity among
the staffs. Some time, performance measurement results in inaccurate record regarding the
behavior of the staffs (Spekle & Verbeeten, 2014). This can hamper negative message among the
staffs, which can affect their productivity. In addition to that, biased attitude among the
management can affect the comprehensiveness of the performance measurement system. This
can create certain barrier in the way of running the internal functionality of an organization in a
systematic manner.
Still, performance measurement can act as an influential factor towards amplifying
requirements of the staff. The article namely “The Impact of Performance Management on
Performance in Public Organizations: A Meta-Analysis”, it has been highlighted that in the
public sector organization, implementation of performance measurement system plays a major
role in accelerating the level of productivity of an organization (Gerrish, 2016). This is the way,
through which the higher authority of public sector organization are becoming able to explore the
below working staffs and take strong action in order to mitigate the issue. At the same time
Epstein, Verbeeten, & Widener, 2018) also observed that execution of performance measurement
mechanism can have a firm impact on building healthy relationship with the staffs, which is the